4th year A
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Fecha de entrega:
Lunes 11 de mayo de 2020, 12,30 hs.
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Read
the story
Dracula
Just
as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the
great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there
was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back.
A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door
swung back.
Within,
stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in
black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a
chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered
in the draught of the open door.
The
old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in
excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome
to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!"
He
made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his
gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone.
The
instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively
forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me
wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice,
more like the hand of a dead than a living man.
Again
he said.
"Welcome
to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you
bring!" The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had
noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted
if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking.
So to
make sure, I said interrogatively, "Count Dracula?" He bowed in a
courtly was as he replied, "I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr.
Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat
and rest." As he was speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall,
and stepping out, took my luggage. He had carried it in before I could
forestall him. I protested, but he insisted. "Nay, sir, you are my guest.
It is late, and my people are not available.
Let me
see to your comfort myself. "He insisted on carrying my traps along the
passage, and then up a great winding stair, and along another great passage, on
whose stone floor our steps rang heavily.
At the
end of this he threw open a heavy door, and I rejoiced to see within a well-lit
room in which a table was spread for supper, and on whose mighty hearth a great
fire of logs, freshly replenished, flamed and flared.
The
Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing the room,
opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room lit by a single
lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort. Passing through this, he
opened another door, and motioned me to enter. It was a welcome sight. For here
was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with another log fire, also added
to but lately, for the top logs were fresh, which sent a hollow roar up the
wide chimney. The Count himself left my luggage inside and withdrew, saying,
before he closed the door.
"You
will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet. I
trust you will find all you wish. When you are ready, come into the other room,
where you will find your supper prepared."
The
light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated
all my doubts and fears. Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that
I was half famished with hunger. So
making a hasty toilet, I went into the other room.
Answer the following questions.
1) Who was the man that
opened the door and welcomed the guests?
2) Was the man young and
short?
3) When
the guest finally got upstairs did and saw his room was he sad and lonely?
4) Is the guest going to eat supper
in his bedroom?
5) What
have dissipated the guest’s doubts and fears?
